https://adamazl.github.io/homelab/tags/opnsense/Recent content in Opnsense on The Home LabHugoen-usSun, 15 Mar 2026 00:37:20 +1300https://adamazl.github.io/homelab/posts/opnsense-firewall-setup/Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://adamazl.github.io/homelab/posts/opnsense-firewall-setup/<h2 id="why-replace-your-isp-router">Why Replace Your ISP Router?</h2> <p>ISP-provided routers are designed to be cheap and manageable by support staff, not to give you control. They have opaque firmware, rarely get security updates, and have none of the features a proper firewall offers: VLAN support, traffic shaping, IDS/IPS, meaningful logs, VPN server, DNS over TLS.</p> <p>OPNsense is a FreeBSD-based firewall/router that runs on commodity x86 hardware. It&rsquo;s fully open-source (forked from pfSense in 2015), actively maintained, and has a polished web UI.</p>